Mullen Family History
Mullen Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of the common and widespread Gaelic name
Ó Maoláin ‘descendant of Maolán’, a byname
meaning ‘tonsured one’, ‘devotee’ (from a diminutive of maol
‘bald’).English: topographic name for someone who lived by
a mill, or a metonymic occupational name for a miller, from
Anglo-Norman French mo(u)lin, mulin ‘mill’ (see
Mill). In some instances it may be a variant of Millen,
from Middle English mullelane.Dutch and Belgian
(van Mullen): habitational name from Mullem in East Flanders,
Mullem in West Flanders, or possibly Mollen in Brabant.Dutch
(van (der) Mullen): variant of van der Molen (see
Molen 4).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mullen
Name Distribution of Mullen Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mullen families
 355 - 708  119 - 354 |
 1 - 118  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mullen families
|
410 - 818 137 - 409 |
1 - 136 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mullen census records
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Mullen Family Origin
Mullen Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mullen Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Mullen Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Mullen census records
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Military Service by Mullen
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